MLB.com: Yost addresses dismissal on Tuesday

Another Yost post!

“We’re 16 games over .500 at this point and there wasn’t anybody who could tell me we weren’t going to make the playoffs,” Yost said. “Maybe it hasn’t sunk in all the way yet, but I don’t feel, like, horrible about it.”
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According to Attanasio, Yost was asked to provide answers for the team’s slide and had none. That’s when the decision was made to dismiss him.

“That’s not what happened,” Yost said. “When I walked in, I hadn’t even sat on the couch and Doug said, ‘We’re going to make a change.’

“Over the course of the next 15 minutes of our conversation, I did mention that I had no idea what had happened the last two weeks. I had no answers. But the thing that came out was, ‘We are going to make a change.’ They didn’t ask me any questions, what did I think? What do we need to do? There was none of that, no.”
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Privately, some players said they saw through Yost’s newly-sunny demeanor. They described a divided clubhouse between those who supported Yost and those who were frustrated with Yost because he was perceived to be unwilling to change an opinion once it was formed.

One player said earlier this season that when he walked into Yost’s office to ask for the manager’s thinking on a particular decision, he walked out sorry he had ever walked in.